"It's a wonderful thing to share and there were so many people who worked so hard on it. "Right now (the Oscar) is floating around the animation department of Pixar, on people's desks," he said.
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"Working with (writer-director) Brad Bird again is exactly where you want to be if you want to learn how to make films," he said.Īs for his Oscar, he's happy to share it with the Pixar crew. "It was nice that they had seen the picture, and Eugene Levy of course worked on 'Finding Dory.' "It's one of those moments where you can never imagine watching 'SCTV' as a kid that Eugene Levy, someone you adore, might actually like something you make one day."īarillaro, who previously contributed to some of Pixar's biggest hits, including "A Bug's Life," "Monsters, Inc." and "WALL-E," will next work on "The Incredibles 2." "I went right for the Canadian heroes – I went to Eugene Levy and (Catherine) O'Hara," he said. compassion for each other."īarillaro and his wife attended the post-Oscars Governors Ball and Vanity Fair party. "I thought they handled it with such great. "Your heart goes out to those filmmakers," he said. Then came the best-picture mess, in which "La La Land" was wrongly announced as the winner before "Moonlight" was awarded the big prize. beside my wife and she shows me a video that my sister sent of all the kids watching the nomination and winning and just screaming. "I felt like if I can talk to them, maybe I won't be so scared to be onstage," he said, adding the best moment of the experience came once he'd sat back down. "It felt a little like 'Piper' was an autobiographical story at that moment, of facing your fears," he said.īarillaro thanked his family during his acceptance speech, including his "three little pipers" – his young children, who were watching from their home in Alameda County, Calif. He was brought back to reality when his wife squeezed him hard. When he heard his name announced as the best animated short winner, along with producer Marc Sondheimer, his mind went blank. The six-minute "Piper," about a baby bird facing her fear of ocean waves with her mother on a beach, screened before "Finding Dory," which was 2016's top-grossing film.īarillaro said he was a bundle of nerves throughout the Oscars.
If your hockey team was losing on Saturday night, I'd go upstairs and watch a movie with my mom." "'Saturday Night at the Movies' with my mom every (week) with Elwy Yost is what I grew up on. "To see my parents walk down the red carpet was by far worth everything," said Barillaro during a phone interview from California, adding his parents helped foster his love of film while growing up in the Niagara Falls, Ont., community of Chippawa, as well as Markham, Ont. Alan Barillaro says he's still unpacking the events surrounding his Oscar win on Sunday for his animated short "Piper."įrom watching his parents proudly walk the red carpet with him and his wife, to witnessing the best-picture fiasco, and meeting his "Canadian heroes," it was certainly an unforgettable night for the father of three.
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